I have a Mac OS X (10.11) virtual machine. But it has stopped working. It just about finishes loading the virtual machine and then just freezes on a black screen. Anyway, I wanna know if there is a way for me to recover the files on that virtual machine (Specifically Xcode files). They were not part of the shared folders so I'm not sure how to access them from the host (which is a windows 10).
One way to do this is to do the following:
Create another virtual machine with Ubuntu
Attached the virtual disk image (.vdi) or whichever format you chose to store the OSX image as a second HDD to the Ubuntu VM.
Follow these instructions to enable HFS+ read write in the Ubuntu virual image.
Another way to do it would be to use something like Arsenal Image mounter which supports direct mounting of a bunch of virtual image formats including VDI, VHD etc.
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Now, the only working operating system is Windows 10. When I go to my Pc in windows, I don't even see my hhd. Is there anyway to save this mess? I tried to unplug my ssd and see if ubuntu shows but nothing.
You probaly go two problems here, the first one is:
the only working operating system is Windows 10.
You probably just replace the default boot drive with the drive where Windows is installed, in this case, you will need to change the boot order, and place the HHD where ubuntu is installed as the first option on the boot order list, (this guide can give you some idea of how to do it. ) after this you will probably see the grub system selector page when your PC starts.
Now to the second problem:
When I go to my Pc in windows, I don't even see my hhd.
The reason that Ubuntu drive doesn't show up is that Windows and Ubuntu use different types of file system technology. Windows uses NFTS and Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, etc) uses EXT4, Windows doesn't support EXT4. To see the Ubuntu drive on Windows, you will need to divide the Ubuntu drive into two partitions, one EXT4 for Ubuntu and another one in NFTS.
I have Virtual box and a customized vagrant box. The thing is that my own laptop (Macbook) has only about 10 Gb of free space. So I bought a 128Gb USB Stick. Now I need to figure out a way to boot up vagrant boxes on this usb stick instead of the default hard drive of my laptop.
Almost all google articles explain how to boot up from the usb. But this is not what I exactly want. Have you ever been through such a situation?
any help would be appreciated!
you can do 3 things :
move your vagrant home directory with all the box on the USB stick (if you have many boxes, it will save some space)
you need to set $VAGRANT_HOME environment variable
move your VirtualBox VM to the USB stick; Open VirtualBox preferences panel and select the new default location folder for VMs. You would need to remove/re-add the VMs in VirtualBox after you moved all files to the external hard drive
You can use Linked Clones
By default new machines are created by importing the base box. For large boxes this produces a large overhead in terms of time (the import operation) and space (the new machine contains a copy of the base box's image). Using linked clones can drastically reduce this overhead.
Linked clones are based on a master VM, which is generated by importing the base box only once the first time it is required. For the linked clones only differencing disk images are created where the parent disk image belongs to the master VM.
It will not help for existing vagrant VM but for your new project, it will help to save space
I am trying to run mapr sandbox on a windows pc and with 8gb ram. But when I am trying to import the ovf its always saying ovf is corrupt while I have used multiple sources the ovf that is running on the other machine is not running in my one.I have tried to play with the configuration as well I also tried to extract and run the ovf as a vmdk but than there will be no config setup done for so that doesn't works as well. Now I have tried that on vmplayer it got install and said that the ovf format is unsupproted and when you try again it will not see the ovf file specification concern so it imported the file successfully but now its says that the vmx file is incompatible. I cannot find any way out?
I did the following for install it on Ubuntu 14.04 (being virtual machines the final destination, shouldn't be mayor problems):
On VirtualBox
Don't use the ovf file.
Create virtual machine (Machine -> New...)
On operating system, choose red hat 64 bits
On memory, you should asing 8 GB for the VM (or less, if you have an old computer like me :D)
Don't add virtual drives, you can't add both drives. Use the option "Do not add a Virtual Hard Drive"
After creation of the VM
Add both disks to the virtual machine, from settings
Configure the network of the machine as following
Attached to "Bridget Adapter"
Name: Eht0
Adapter Type: Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop
Promiscuos mode: Deny
Cable Connected: yes
After this small steps, you should be capable of doing right click -> start, and start using MapR. Basically, we import the machine in a very complicated way, because the ovf file that is supposed to use for importing doesn't work!!
I was facing same issue on my Windows & machine. Here is what I did:
Again downloaded MapR sandbox for VMWare for windows.
Uninstalled previous version of VMWare which was giving this issue and downloaded VMWare Workstation Player for Windows 64 bit.
This time it worked.
As I had the chance to experiment with MapR recently-
MapR needs 6GB RAM
at least for the Virtual Box
(or the virtual machine you are using on windows)
if you don't grant the MapR these 6gb it is just not starting with some strange error saying nothing about that issue. You have 8gb ram on your windows machine so I recommend you to spend at least 6.2gb ram for the process.
p.s. Later I had other problems with the mapper as you can see with no support. (previous I found 1 more bug that they say will be fixed in MapR 6)
I am currently using MapR 5.2
I have downloaded the fedora iso image and trying to install it using virtual box on my mac. I dedicated a space of 40GB for my hard drive. Now I get this pop up message, I am worried if it will delete my data on hard-drive. I have enough free-space left on my hard-drive. but I don't want this partion to erase my exisiting data.
where is the partition created on file system.(ATA VBOX HARDDISK). Here is the screenshot:
Creating a virtual hard-disk in the host operating system (In virtualBox) will not overwrite any files on your hard drive. It will only utilize unused space on your disk. Overwriting the hard-disk in the guest operating system will not delete any files in the host, but it will overwrite/wipe files in the virtual hard disk (guest OS files).
I first created system images using Windows backup then realized that those VHD files cannot be booted using Virtual PC.
So I found the utility Disk2VHD and spent a few hours making a new VHD and tried booting it with Virtual PC but it too cannot boot.
It is giving the error:
PXE-E53: no boot filename received
I followed some instructions found online on going into the Virtual PC settings and ensuring I have the right vhd set up which I do, I also have integration features unavailable.
I then went into the Virtual PC's BIOS and in The Boot menu and it says under Hard Disk Drives [Virtual HD] and in the boot priorities the 1st boot device is the Hard Drive.
This VHD is created from my C: which is my main Windows install (Windows 7 Pro 64-bit)
The whole goal of this is I want to format my drive and install new Windows but I wanted to be able to make a bootable image I could go into later to recover things as needed and see how stuff was setup if I forgot.
When you converted it over, did you check in the checkbox which allows the file to be used in Virtual PC? I forget what it's called but in there is a checkbox you have to click in before you convert it over.
Also make sure the drive isn't bigger than 127GB or Virtual PC won't recognize it.